2 Toga's
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Putting my bags in the car at Heathrow parking (pink efluent) Right next to runway (as you know).
Heard louder than normal noise , looked up to see 744 going around. Obviously previous aircraft not departed runway. Nothing wrong with that, next aircraft landed normally, next aircrafy went around. So two out of three aircraft went around.
Was it a new controller or what ?
Time 11 ish Saturday morning.
Heard louder than normal noise , looked up to see 744 going around. Obviously previous aircraft not departed runway. Nothing wrong with that, next aircraft landed normally, next aircrafy went around. So two out of three aircraft went around.
Was it a new controller or what ?
Time 11 ish Saturday morning.
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It was a toga party. 
Oh, and they are called go arounds (the GA bit), not togas. TOGA (take off/go around) refers to the button on the thrust levers which is used to command the necessary thrust setting and/or flight director commands.
Oh, and they are called go arounds (the GA bit), not togas. TOGA (take off/go around) refers to the button on the thrust levers which is used to command the necessary thrust setting and/or flight director commands.
Except on Airbus where there is no TOGA button
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The Initial confusion over the TOGA button and the post referring to a "Go Round" relights the phrasiology issue of the use of "Go Round" instead of Golf XXXX- Overshoot , I say again Overshoot - In the heat of the moment A part of my brain would instruct hands/Feet/Eyes to Orbit - not the best idea - I hope it has never happened but it makes you think.
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There is no 'phraseology issue' at all with anyone but you! An 'overshoot' is rolling off the end of a runway. A 'Go-around' is putting on power to climb and follow the 'go-around' procedure. Your interpretation of 'overshoot' seems to be locked in some long distant past UK only useage. It was a bad use of an English word, which seems peculiar in the home of English, and has long since been stamped out leaving you as one of the few practitioners of the old, faulty useage. Bring yourself up to date Man!
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So....Why so many go around's then?
New controller, poor airmanship (person-ship, ahem !)
Thanks for the lesson on TOGA I know that's a button, not a process, but you get the idea all the same !
Bit like saying "put the clutch in" as opposed to "dip the clutch" really isn't it?
New controller, poor airmanship (person-ship, ahem !)
Thanks for the lesson on TOGA I know that's a button, not a process, but you get the idea all the same !
Bit like saying "put the clutch in" as opposed to "dip the clutch" really isn't it?
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Who knows? Who cares? They were well executed otherwise some creep would have spilled the beans here! The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind.
